“Wall Street was Drunk” Or Is Network-Cable Television Media Drunk?
Compare the following two statements: “It is undeniable that the combination of excessively low interest rates maintained for a protracted period of ...
Category: Current Affairs
Iraq & Tibet – Strategic Will of The American and Chinese People
Editor’s Note: This week, the Television and Print Media in America has written numerous articles on Iraq. This has prompted us to write our views on this...
Did CNBC Management give us a market signal?
“Fast Money” has been a major hit for CNBC. This is a show for active traders who like to trade stocks for quick profits. Hence the name “Fast...
So You Think You Can Dance – Read, Watch and Enjoy
These clips were brought to our attention by two friends of this blog: Madhav Chavan of Pratham Fame (www.pratham.org) and Rachel Saltz of the New York Times Th...
When I feel Life has been Unfair to me, I think of Karna
Have you ever felt that Life has been unfair to you? That some how, fate has not allowed you to be all you could have been, to achieve all that you could have a...
MahaBharat – World, India, Karna-Arjun, Bollywood
With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and about 1.8 million words in total, the Maha-Bharat (The Great story of the Bharat Dynasty) is one of the l...
Indonesia’s Celebrated Actress – A Fan of Shammi Kapoor and Dil Deke Dekho
Indonesian actress Christine Hakim, a six-time recipient of Indonesia’s prestigious Piala Citra award for best actress, grew up watching Shammi Kapoor fil...
Watching CNBC – A Bollywood Rasik’s Perspective
Last week, as I watched CNBC during the day, I was struck by similarities between my reactions to watching Bollywood Films and my reactions to watching CNB...
The Greatest Publishing Project of Recent Years – Conceived and Implemented in America
I would hazard a guess that every notable scholarly pursuit in American history began at Harvard. This may be my naiveté or the pain of having paid four years o...
From the Tang Dynasty in 5th century CE to 21st Century Beijing – A Tradition of Sanskrut Scholarship
During his recent visit to China, Pranab Mukherjee, the External Affairs Minister of India, handed over the prestigious Padma Bhushan certificate and medallion ...